If it fails, Obama's burden will be back-breaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Foreboding] Reference

It seemed to her a back-breaking, strenuous labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

Just putting food on the table can be back-breaking work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007] Reference

None of these old back-breaking, up-and-down dashers for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

COOPER: And that is back-breaking works building the sandbags.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference

They do the back-breaking manual labor many Americans do not want to.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2001] Reference

Sandbagging continues, as you see back-breaking, thankless work it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference

Work was scarce, and when it could be found, it was back-breaking labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legend of the Slain Soldiers]

It's intensive, hard-working, back-breaking, in the hot sun kind of labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2006] Reference

The 9/11 attacks were followed by months of back-breaking work in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2006] Reference

Meanwhile, out of the back-breaking labor the first results began to appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

Because in that heat, that is back-breaking work, and they deserve living wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 24, 2008] Reference

And you don't need to have a back-breaking expensive tax increase in order to do that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009] Reference

That's grafting or flowering, or whatever you want to call it -- back-breaking exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

And those who do are burdened with back-breaking debt that they can't dig themselves out of.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2008] Reference

They were doing the back-breaking work and then they would call us down to carry out our brothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2006] Reference

We respect the hard and sometimes back-breaking work of those who participate daily in our economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2007] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: The back-breaking dangerous work of coal mining in West Virginia is on hold this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2006] Reference

KOCH (voice-over): Twelve months of back-breaking labor, thousands of volunteers and sheer determination.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006] Reference

It would take slow, back-breaking labor, and time, and the action of the seasons to make the prairie bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

KING: Ann Miller once said she made it with her lucky legs, her mother, and a lot of back-breaking hard work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2004] Reference

Many of them put in long hours of back-breaking labor after their regular work for the day had been completed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries] Reference

Rebuilding this ravaged nation is a daunting task, one that its own people take on in slow, back-breaking ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2003] Reference

KAGAN (voice-over): The purpose of this back-breaking work, of course, is to save houses and all types of homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2003] Reference

CANDIOTTI (voice over): In the past, there's been no trouble finding migrant workers to do the back-breaking job.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006] Reference

Noll followed slowly after, wondering why they did not use their boat, instead of enduring such back-breaking toil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

When you ` re there with the victim ` s family, and you ` re working day and night, back-breaking hours, it is so hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2008] Reference

It's dawn. 40-year-old Jean Pierre Mbenga and his five-men crew begin what will be a filthy, dangerous and back-breaking job.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2006] Reference

We checked in with our Susan Roesgen who is in there as well, back-breaking work and they're continuing it as long as they can.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2009] Reference

For a day of this back-breaking labor they are paid about what one of their rich employers would give for one of his best cigars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in the Orient] Reference

Feeling the wall on our left hand, she then pulled me for some distance along a back-breaking tunnel, to a door which led outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

To such old men, who probably had never lifted the smallest and lightest tool for many years, if ever, it was a back-breaking task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

Families all across the country are struggling with everything from back-breaking health care costs to trying to stay in their homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2008] Reference

Remembering the back-breaking loads he had carried to the cabin, Harlan grinned back at the bellying sail behind him as he sped along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

We know that a lot of the people who came here illegally are doing back-breaking work and that there's got to be a way to regulate this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2006] Reference